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each peek than the Samian peek ; fo that if, to 20 peeks of 
Seide, you add twenty times four inches, which is 80, the 
difference of the two peeks, when divided by 18, gives four, 
which, added to the 20 peeks on the column, make 24 peeks, 
the number fought. Secondly, That this obfervation in the 
Han el Mohaderat fufficiently confirms what I have faid — 
both of the length of the column and length of the peek; _ 
that the former is 20 peeks in height, and that the meafure, 
by which this is afcertained, is the peek El Belledy of 22 
inches, as it appears on the brafs rod, four inches longer 
than the Samian peek, and confequently is not the peek of 
Stambouline, nor any foreign meafure whatever. 
A TRAVELLER thinks he has attained to a great deal of 
precifion, when, obferving 18 peeks on the higheft divifion 
of the column from its bafe, or bottom of the well, he finds 
it 37 feet; he divides this by 18, and the quotient is 24 
inches; when he fhould divide it by 20, and the anfwer 
would be 22 and a fraétion, the true content of the peek 
El Belledy, or peek of the Mikeas. This erroneous divifion 
of his he calls the peek of the Mikeas; and comparing it 
with what authors, lefs informed than himfelf, have faid, 
he names the Stambouline peek, and then the black peek, 
when it really is his own peek, the creature of his own er- | 
ror or inadvertence; but, as he does not know this, it is 
handed down from traveller to traveller, till unfortunately 
it is adopted by fome man of reputation, and it then be- 
comes, as in this cafe, a fort of literary crime to any man, 
- from the authority of his own eyes and hands, to difpute it. 
Mr 
